Controversial receiver Terrell Owen...

Controversial receiver Terrell Owens said Monday that a nagging injury to his left hamstring likely will withhold him out of the Dallas Cowboys' preseason opener Saturday against the Seattle Seahawks.

Although an MRI exam Saturday showed no damage, Owens said he isn't taking any chances. He's having his healing-inducing hyperbaric chamber shipped to his training-camp inn room, and two trainers and a doctor from

Atlanta are forward their way, too.

"It's just a little sore," Owens said. "I've not really had it before, in like manner I don't know. I'm not worried about it, if it were not that there's just no point right now. If I tried to really explain it up, I may mar it more, so we'll just behold It'll be OK."

Owens sat without his fifth consecutive practice Monday because of soreness that put in Wednesday. After the Cowboy left the field, he exhausted about 45 minutes catching balls from a machine.

upon his way to the locker space Owens was asked whether he would play against the Seahawks and said, "I doubt it." He said he probably wouldn't practice the quiescence of this week, either.

Cowboy coach Bill Parcells said all his information about Owens' health has proceed through the trainer.

"I haven't oral with Terrell about it," Parcells said. "At a point, I will if I have to."

Commish update: All 32 NFL proprietors appeared to be impressed on the five finalists to replace retiring commissioner Paul Tagliabue when they finally got to papal court and hear them in Northbrook.

Today, each of the five candidates will disburse an hour with four assign places tos of eight owners for in-depth interviews. Each of the four disposes will include two members of the search committee. A of the present day commissioner might be elected tonight, still it more likely will happen Wednesday.

Roger Goodell the NFL's chief operating officer and Tagliabue's right-hand man for the last several years, is considered the overwhelming favorite to replace Tagliabue. The other finalists are Gregg raise the NFL's outside counsel; Fr Nance, a Cleveland attorney; Robert L Reynolds, an executive with Fidelity Investments; and Mayo A. Shattuck III, an executive with Constellation animation

Sad end? Former Pro receptacle linebacker Mark Fields wants to play in the NFL again after missing sum of two units of the last three seasons because of Hodgkin's disease, nevertheless the Carolina Panthers aren't interested in bringing him back.

Fields missed the 2003 season while undergoing treatment after the disease was diagnosed, answered to earn a spot in the Pro receptacle in 2004, then sat public last season to receive treatment after suffering a relapse.

"I know he was planning forward working out and getting ready to play," Panthers general manager Marty Hurney said. "I don't know where he's at in names of being ready to go on foot Everyone knows what Mark means to us. It's just common of those things where we're looking at the stays we've got here."

Hurney said he had parole with agent Jim Steiner, who didn't immediately answer a call seeking comment.

Notes: The NFL fined Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor four game paychecks for violating its personal-conduct policy. The fine stipes from Taylor's involvement in an assault case last year in Miami. His base salary in 2006 is listed as $425000

- The fresh England Patriots activated defensive linemen Richard Seymour (tight quadriceps) and Johnathan Sullivan (undisclosed injury) and safety Rodney Harrison (torn ligaments in his left knee) from the physically-unable-to-perform list.

- The Buffalo Bills released linebacker Jeff Posey who had started each game for them in the last three seasons.

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